Phage therapy is the therapeutic use of bacteriophage to treat pathogenic bacterial infections. Although extensively used and developed mainly in former Soviet Union countries circa 1920, this method of therapy is still being tested elsewhere for treatment of a variety of bacterial and poly-microbial biofilm infections, and has not yet been approved in countries other than Georgia. Phage therapy has many potential applications in human medicine as well as dentistry, veterinary science, and agriculture.If the target host of a phage therapy treatment is not an animal the term "biocontrol" (as in phage-mediated bio control of bacteria) is usually employed, rather than "phage therapy".
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